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Re:Introducing Sencha Animator: The CSS3 Alternative to Flash by taitems on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @06:29PM (#1840736)
Agreed, at first glance I assumed it was a web-based editor like the Aviary suite of tools.

Being CSS3 based also threw me completely. Adobe has already demoed some great things with their canvas export functionality. One would also assume that the browser acceptance of this type of animation would be far greater than CSS3 transitions. It could even degrade to VML for older IE versions to achieve the more basic effects.

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Re:Introducing Sencha Animator: The CSS3 Alternative to Flash by revjx on Thursday October 28, 2010 @04:41AM (#1842217)
I think the point is that CSS3 is hardware-accelerated on platforms like the iPad / iPhone, whereas the canvas isn't - it runs like a bit of a dog on those two.

I personally would prefer using the canvas though, especially if it becomes HW accelerated across the board.

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